The surge of ICE activity across Maine over the last few weeks is deeply alarming. We know many of you are feeling the same mix of anxiety and anger that we are, while our staff is doing their parts as individuals, we also wanted to take a stand as a business.

So appreciative of readers like @megmcdermott92.bsky.social. I love seeing these kinds of connections and being part of a conversation.

Grateful to @theatlantic.com and the editorial team of Kat Hu and Walt Hunter for publishing this abecedarian about my night guard, among other things. I feel like my dentist would be proud.

Correction to a previous post! @abbiekiefer.bsky.social was published in @baltimorereview.bsky.social. ✨ Which means you have another chance to check out her piece. 😉 buff.ly/a3Vx7jw

Glad to have a chance to review THE LOST NOSTALGIAS by Esteban Rodríguez for @coloradoreview.bsky.social coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/the-...

I have a tiny Norm Abrams tribute in the new issue of the Baltimore Review. You can read it and go watch some New Yankee Workshop reruns. baltimorereview.org/fall_2025/co...

#sealeychallenge Day 22 Abbie Kiefer, Certain Shelter This book evokes memories of a vanished Maine, a lost mother, and the way the past still lives in us as we revitalize our homes and ourselves.

Abbie Kiefer’s CERTAIN SHELTER is one of three New Hampshire Literary Award finalists in poetry! 🤩 Winners will be announced at a ceremony on October 18. Check out the full list here: nhwritersproject.org/finalists-an...

Really grateful to the team at @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social

Join us for a cozy Sunday-night virtual craft chat on 9/28 to celebrate the launch of Level Watch in two weeks, featuring Abbie Kiefer! Register at bit.ly/level-watch-launch ✨

Our newest issue is now available for purchase! Featuring work by @feliciazamorapoet.bsky.social, @nadeemzaman.bsky.social, @mlynxqualey.bsky.social, @kgapoetwriter.bsky.social, @abbiekiefer.bsky.social, @riggstah.bsky.social, and more. Order the issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/winter...

"There is a measure of comfort in the nearness of others and there are ways in which a person can never be near enough." Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social reviewed CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington for @themassreview.bsky.social! Give it read right here: buff.ly/6Go8W1a

I loved this challenging, layered book. You might too. Thanks to @themassreview.bsky.social for publishing my review of CIVIL TWILIGHT by Cynthia Huntington from Southern Illinois University Press. massreview.org/2025/08/26/a...

Our catalog features titles by Kelly R. Samuels, Cyril Wong, Abbie Kiefer, Lauren Davis, Miranda Dennis, Katherine Fallon, & Roseanna Alice Boswell. All proceeds go to authors! #chapbooks #indiepoets #indiepoetry #indieauthors #indiepub #indiebooks #smallpress #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

Summer reading: CERTAIN SHELTER by @abbiekiefer.bsky.social (@juneroadpress.bsky.social, 2024). Here are poems for a mother, “All These Things I Can’t Remember” & a father, “I Don’t Like Baseball, Just the Red Sox.” I recommend the @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social about this incredible debut. ♥️

Brian Turner calls HUMAN RESOURCES by @erinmurphy.bsky.social a "love song to the profound work of survival." It's a fantastic description of this incisive, clever collection that made me pay real attention to the ways we value labor and the humans who provide it. graysonbooks.com/products/hum...

Thanks to @sundresspub.bsky.social and guest editor Alexis Ivy for featuring poems from CERTAIN SHELTER as part of The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed this week. @juneroadpress.bsky.social sundressblog.com/2025/07/28/t...

Making your list for the Sealey Challenge? Order CERTAIN SHELTER for 15% off with the promo code AUGUST: www.abbiekieferpoet.com/books

Love this set of tender, true poems by @janezwart.bsky.social in the new issue of Bracken. www.brackenmagazine.com/issue-xiii/t...

Grateful to @eadwinedwards.bsky.social for this insightful, generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER in the latest issue of Pedestal. thepedestalmagazine.com/abbie-kiefer...

@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social: "I don't want to take anything away from the size of the bummer that this is all temporary. But also the fact that it's temporary means that it really matters. We really have an obligation to each other, and that obligation isn't forever." www.npr.org/2025/03/27/1...

Trying to be chill about this but the audiobook narrator of a novel set in Maine keeps calling Bangor "Banger."

“Like a quilt, in which scattered pieces of fabric are used to create a new whole, Kiefer stitches together scenes...” Read Lori Rottenberg’s review of Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter here: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

So proud of my @juneroadpress.bsky.social pressmate @mardery.bsky.social. LEVEL WATCH is gorgeous. Do future-you a favor and pre-order! www.juneroadpress.com/level-watch

I have so many Matchbook Lit favorites! But I'm not in the running for a FREE notebook w. writing prompts! Matchbook is giving five copies away, so be sure to weigh in here! 📚📚📚

"When will we go back and brush the plants that know to fold against threat. Rebuild the bonobo, its empty bones so like ours" Beautiful and devastating micro from @abbiekiefer.bsky.social in @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social www.matchbooklitmag.com/mb/kiefer/wh...

Have a beautiful poem for ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY 💕 Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social‬ published a poem in @theoffingmag.bsky.social about moving forward: buff.ly/pvVv92z

"of equinoctial certainty — each in ascent, wings cutting like checkmarks" From “Geese in Flight, Oil on Canvas, Restwell Motor Inn Room 12 with One-Way U-Haul Parked Outside” a Poem by Abbie Kiefer ( @abbiekiefer.bsky.social ). theoffingmag.com/poetry/geese...

Lori Rottenberg reviews @abbiekiefer.bsky.social's poetry collection, Certain Shelter, in our May/June issue: literarymama.com/articles/dep...

I've got a tiny poem about motel art up at @theoffingmag.bsky.social today! theoffingmag.com/poetry/geese...

Contributor @abbiekiefer.bsky.social‬ was interviewed in The Maine Review, where she talked about her first writing job, the show Top Chef, and CERTAIN SHELTER, her debut full-length poetry collection from @juneroadpress.bsky.social! Read the interview here: buff.ly/d5LUxq1

Grateful to Lori Rottenberg and @literarymama.bsky.social for this generous review of CERTAIN SHELTER. literarymama.com/articles/dep...

“I love writing about the quotidian because I saw how much of our lives are given to that.”

Chatted with Shanta Lee about CERTAIN SHELTER, navigating rejection, and Top Chef for The Maine Review. www.mainereview.com/radicle-inte...

I only just subscribed to Devin Kelly's blog & am loving it! Thank you @abbiekiefer.bsky.social for posting last week's! I hope this week's will find some more subscribers as well. #writingCommunity open.substack.com/pub/ordinary...

Devin Kelly's Ordinary Plots is maybe my favorite newsletter. Today's reflection is on Marie Howe's "Hurry" and you will read it and be grateful. ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/marie-howe...

Flash (a single paragraph!) nonfiction about joy and bravery and Boston's @museumofscience.bsky.social. Thanks to matchbook for publishing it and to whoever invented astronaut ice cream.

listen, I know you're exhausted what with the baby keeping you up all night and requiring constant supervision all day but you really should set up a microbiology lab in the den and conduct a double-blind longitudinal study of the efficacy of the polio vaccine in your spare time

Local friends: I'm going to be doing a workshop with my friend Theresa Monteiro at the Nossrat Yassini Poetry Festival tomorrow at UNH. You can register in person—and it's free! Come join us! www.unhpoetry.com

I had the chance to write about LAW OF THE LETTER by @thisamericanliz.bsky.social for @commonmag.bsky.social

Thanks to @williamwoolfitt.bsky.social for the chance to talk about ordering a manuscript and writing oddball poems. spkofmarvels.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/a...

Five years ago, The Cortland Review published one of my earliest CERTAIN SHELTER poems, before I was even sure I had a book to write. Today they published one of the last ones I wrote for the book. Grateful to @christiangullette.bsky.social and the whole staff. www.cortlandreview.com/issue-94/abb...

Thanks to @thisamericanliz.bsky.social for including CERTAIN SHELTER in her @electricliterature.com Reading List. electricliterature.com/8-debut-poet...

Lots of thanks to Jefferson Navicky for his thoughtful take on CERTAIN SHELTER and for @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social publishing it. Jefferson talks about the book's ability to "lay into loss, but also counteract it" and I love that.

"This is the experience of anxiety- jumbled thoughts that just keep coming..." Abbie Kiefer shines her keen light on Jennifer Richter's collection of poems, Dear Future on Open Space: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

This cat that looks like a croissant wants you to read my review of DEAR FUTURE by Jennifer Richter in @northamerreview.bsky.social: northamericanreview.org/open-space/2...

Loved this tender conversation between @sakeriver.com and Abbie Kiefer about (classic!) television as a touch point, the layers of memory, and how ephemerality is central to the human experience. Plus: doing things you’re not good at. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...

Such a pleasure to review this beautiful book by Theresa Monteiro in the latest issue of @whaleroadreview.bsky.social. www.whaleroadreview.com/theresa-mont...

This small, beautiful essay by @kellyluce.bsky.social: "Mary, remember when it snowed during dinner last week and you screamed? I would like to be more that way." SAME. www.craftliterary.com/2025/03/12/m...

listen I love you bojangles is coming